Oracle Corporation is an enterprise software and cloud infrastructure company listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ORCL. In its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 May 2026 it describes itself as providing “products and services that build, run and support enterprise information technology (IT) frameworks,” comprising “enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings that incorporate and are enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies,” delivered through cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid deployments. Its cloud offerings are Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Relevance to digital political discourse
Oracle appears in this collection as an infrastructure provider rather than a consumer platform: it sells the databases and cloud capacity that other organizations run on, and so has no direct relationship with an audience. Its bearing on political discourse is therefore indirect, through the systems its customers operate rather than through anything Oracle publishes.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Oracle Corporation, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 May 2026. (2026). Source for Oracle's own business description — that it "provides products and services that build, run and support enterprise information technology (IT) frameworks," incorporating AI technologies, delivered through cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid deployment models, with Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as its cloud offerings.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Oracle Corp — EDGAR filer record, CIK 0001341439. Source for the registrant's EIN 54-2185193, NYSE listing under ticker ORCL, and SIC classification 7372 (prepackaged software).